This is an AAR for the 9/11 Memorial Light held in Shanskville NY on Saturday, 9/10/16. I have wanted to do a 9/11 event for several years and my plans to do so always fell through in the past which made me doubly committed to doing a 9/11 event in 2016. I had originally planned on a NYC event, but … [Read more...]
GORUCK Red Dawn 2016 AAR
There are a lot of custom GORUCK events out there and they’re all pretty cool, but every once in a while something epic comes along. This AAR will recount my experience at the epicness of the Red Dawn event series, held outside of Denver Colorado in June 2016. You’ll hear a little about my … [Read more...]
Shadowing & Events With Children AAR
This AAR is going to be a little different than most. Instead of covering 1 event, I’m going to talk about 3 and they’re all events I did with my teenage daughter. The first 2 we shadowed, the last event we both participated in (2 Challenges in Syracuse New York in 2015, December 2015 Custom Santa … [Read more...]
Shadowing a GORUCK Challenge (Spring 2015)
Kinda glad to be standing around in the rain and not rolling around in the dirt doing bear crawls, seal drags, or any of the terrible shyte dreamed up Cadre Brian Squared” And yes, that's exactly how I felt at the time. I was feeling nostalgic for my last 2 events as I watched the cadre push the … [Read more...]
Team SPEARHEAD St. Augustine GRC AAR
This week's GORUCK AAR comes from Team SPEARHEAD and covers the St. Augustine GORUCK Challenge. It's well written and well photographed so hopefully you really enjoy the read! While you're over there check out the rest of the Team SPEARHEAD site... they have a ton of great AARs and training programs … [Read more...]
GORUCK Challenge 1335 AAR (Where And Wander)
I can't remember where I stumbled upon this AAR... it might have been while searching Google or it might have been on the Tough page. Either way, I'm so glad that I found it because it's a great read. This AAR covers GORUCK Challenge class 1335 and their adventure through 12 hours of pain. … [Read more...]